On March 6, 2008, the Scientific Workshop was organized in the Foksal Press Centre in Warsaw and was devoted to the legal areas of our specialty, i.e., copyright and antimonopoly laws. The discussed topics were closely connected with the jurisprudence of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, the Polish courts and European Community institutions in relation to activities of the societies for the collective management in the field of copyright and neighbouring rights.
The following speakers made presentations during the Workshop: Mr. Grzegorz Materna, Director of the OCCP, Dr. Kamil Kiljański of DG COMP, Professor Janusz Barta, Professor Ryszard Markiewicz and Jarosław Sroczyński of M&S. Our moderator was Professor Tadeusz Skoczny, director of the Centre of Antimonopoly and Regulatory Studies of the Warsaw University (CSAiR), which co-organized the Workshop together with M&S.
Over 100 participants attended the Workshop, representing the scientific environment, state and regulatory institutions, the collective management societies, companies (especially from the media sector), law firms and economic consultancies.
The Workshop was also an occasion to present the legal publications of Wolters Kluwer.
Following the scientific part of the Workshop, we had a memorable celebration of the launch of Markiewicz & Sroczyński.
